Life Is Too Short Quotes

Life Is Too Short Quotes

“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”

– Phillips Brooks

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”

– Stephen Vincent Benét

“Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right.”

– Harry Morant

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.”

– Charles Richards

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

– Wayne Dyer17

“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”

– Zachary Scott

“Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.”

– Christian Gellert

“Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.”

– Unknown

“We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.”36

– Novak Djokovic

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.”

– Marie Ray

“Expect an early death – it will keep you busier.”

– Martin H. Fischer

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”

– Larry McMurtry

“Life is too short to work so hard.”

– Vivien Leigh

“Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.”

Eric Davis

“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

“Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember ‘Life is too short to be little’”

– Dale Carnegie

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Broken Love Promise Quotes and Sayings

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.

Sometimes you have to smile and pretend everything’s okay. Hold back the tears, and just walk away

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Hope is the worst gift you can give someone when your promises are mere words.

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.

Some promises are better left unsaid.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

When a man takes an oath… he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then – he needn’t hope to find himself again.

It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

A promise must never be broken.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

All promise outruns performance.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

Quotes About Perseverance and Never Giving Up

1. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'

--Mary Anne Radmacher, American author and artist

2. Fall seven times and stand up eight.

--Japanese Proverb

3. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

--Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist and developer of the theory of relativity

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4. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

--Thomas Edison (1874-1931), inventor of the light bulb

5. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

--Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of Ford Motor Company

6. A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

--B.F. Skinner (1904-1990), American psychologist

7. Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?'

--Richard Carlson, American psychotherapist and author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

8. What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

--Karen Salmansohn, best-selling self-help author

9. As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.

--Dr. Steve Maraboli, speaker and author

10. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

--Robert Collier (1885-1950), American self-help author

11. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

--Confucius (551-479 BC), philosopher

12. Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American author

13. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

--Newt Gingrich (1943- ), American politician, historian, and author

14. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

--Julie Andrews (1935- ), English film and stage actress

15. Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

--Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British politician and writer

16. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

--William Feather (1889-1981), American author

17. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

--Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), world-renowned author and speaker

18. Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

--Leigh Mitchell Hodges (1876-1954), journalist and poet

19. We will either find a way or make one.

--Hannibal (247-182 BC), Carthaginian General

20. It always seems impossible until it's done.

--Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African anti-apartheid leader

21. The best way out is always through.

--Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet

22. A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.

--George M. Moore Jr. (1862-1940), Member U.S. House of Representatives

23. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

--Bill Cosby (1937- ), comedian and actor

24. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

--George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930), American poet

25. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American abolitionist and author

Sad Love Quotes For The Utterly Broken-Hearted

1. "How could an angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart." — Toni Braxton


2. "Life's a prison when you're in love alone…" — Usher


3. "Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime." — Bette Davis

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4. "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." — Kahlil Gibran


5. "The hottest love has the coldest end." — Socrates


6. "I was born the day you kissed me, and I died inside the night you left me. But I lived, oh how I lived while you loved me." — Rascal Flaats


7. "The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you." — Unknown


8. "Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than to try to put them back together and end up hurting yourself." — Unknown


9. "You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met, and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet ... You walk by, and I fall to pieces." — Patsy Cline


10. "Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I'm only falling apart." — Bonnie Tyler


11. "You had me at a point where I would have left the entire world behind for you." — Unknown



12. "If they ask you, tell them ‘She was the only person  that loved me with honesty, and i broke her’" — Unknown


13. "I’m tired of fighting. For once I want to be fought for." — Unknown


14. "So let’s ignore each other. Pretend like the other person doesn’t exist. But deep down, we both know it wasn’t supposed to end like this." — Unknown


15. "Don’t be sorry, I trusted you. My fault, not yours." — Unknown

Quotes Telling You What To Write About

1. If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
 ~ Toni Morrison

2. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come the most unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
~ Francis Bacon

3. The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
~ Neil Gaiman

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4. I dare you all to write one more thing that you won’t say to my face.
~ Marilyn Manson

5. Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
 ~ Emile M. Cioran

6. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
~ Cyril Connolly

7. I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.
~ Dolly Parton

8. I write out of my intellectual experience.
~ Tom Stoppard

9. You write about what you know.
~ Larry David

10. And if you don’t live, you have nothing to write about.
~ James Maynard Keenan

11. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
~ Anais Nin

12. Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
~ Joseph Joubert

13. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
~ Jack Kerouac

14. Usually, I walk and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
~Demetri Martin

15. I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
~ D. H. Lawrence

16. Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. ~ Ray Bradbury

Motivating & Inspiring Quotes About Success

Motivating & Inspirational Quotes About Success

"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
— Dale Carnegie

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
— Bruce Barton

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that?s where you will find success."
— Thomas J. Watson

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight."
— Mark Caine

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
—  Christopher Morley

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
— Christopher Morley

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success."
— Orison Swett Marden

"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination?they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
— Robert Collier

"Success doesn't come to you?you go to it."
— Marva Collins

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
— Vincent T. Lombardi

Quotations about Mistakes In Life

Quotations about Mistakes In Life - By authors quotes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927


Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~Sophia Loren


It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
 ~Ornette Coleman

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
~John Peel


Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting."
~Author unknown


If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
~F. Wikzek


Of all the blunders that blundering critics ever blundered upon, surely this is the greatest.
~"Aristarchus" of Oxford


While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
 ~Henry C. Link


An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
~Niels Bohr


A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
 ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies


That's not serious, it's just human.
 ~The amazingly brilliant


The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
~John Powell


The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
~Edward Phelps


Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
 ~Weston H. Agor


Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
 ~Eli Siegel


Error is not always the result of a want of education, but often a lack of power to comprehend the truth.
 ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915)


One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
~Henry David Thoreau


You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
 ~Colette


Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.
 ~Alfonso de Cartagena


As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
~Mel Brooks


Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.
~Author Unknown


When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!
~Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick


Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
 ~Author Unknown


Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
~Henry S. Haskins


Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
~Martin F. Tupper


When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.
 ~Dan Heist


Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
 ~Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights


The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
~Aubrey Menen


If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
 ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916


A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
~James Joyce, Ulysses


Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one.
~Author Unknown


Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
~Francis Bacon


Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
~Andrew V. Mason